December 3-4, 2015 - LCDC Salem <br />Agenda Item 4, Attachment A <br />Proposed New Rules to Implement ORS 197A Public Draft 3 - November 23, 2015 <br />1 (9) "Urbanizable land" means land inside a UGB that, due to the present unavailability of urban <br />2 facilities and services, or for other reasons, either retains the zone designations assigned prior to <br />3 inclusion in the UGB or is subject to interim zone designations intended to maintain the land's <br />4 potential for planned urban development until appropriate public facilities and services are <br />5 available or planned. <br />6 OAR 660-038-0020 <br />7 Applicability <br />8 (1) This division takes effect January 1, 2016. Rules in this division provide optional simplified <br />9 methods for a city outside Metro to evaluate or amend its UGB. These methods are available to <br />10 cities in addition to and not in lieu of the methods provided in OAR chapter 660, division 24. If a <br />11 city uses this division to evaluate or amend a UGB, the requirements of division 24 do not apply <br />12 to the UGB evaluation or amendment. <br />13 (2) A city that evaluates or amends its UGB using this division must demonstrate that: <br />14 (a) It has sufficient buildable lands and other development capacity, including land and <br />15 capacity for needed housing and employment opportunities, within its UGB to meet the <br />16 growth in population and employment that is forecast to occur over a 14-year period, <br />17 (b) It based its determination of the amount of buildable lands needed for housing, <br />18 employment and other urban uses on the population and employment growth forecast to <br />19 occur over a 14-year period, consistent with rules in this division, and <br />20 (c) Lands included within the UGB include sufficient serviceable land for at least a seven- <br />21 year period and can all be serviceable over a 14-year period as provided in OAR 660-038- <br />22 0200. <br />23 (3) A city using this division is not required to adopt findings to support the use of a number or a <br />24 number within a range that is expressed by a rule in this division. <br />25 (4) A city that uses this division to add land to the UGB may not use a method in this division <br />26 again to add land to the UGB until: <br />27 (a) The population of the city has grown by at least 50 percent of the amount of growth <br />28 forecast to occur in conjunction with the previous use of the method by the city; or <br />29 (b) At least one-half of the lands identified as buildable lands for employment needs or for <br />30 residential needs during the previous use of the method by the city have been developed. <br />31 (5) A city that adopts a UGB amendment using this division must evaluate whether the city <br />32 needs to include additional land for residential or employment uses within the UGB before the <br />11/23/2015 3:43:00 PM <br />http://intranet.dlcd.state.or.us/projects/UGBRAC/Reference Documents/660-038_3rdPublicDraft_2015-11-20.docx v2.0 <br />3 <br />